This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Don't blame the children
Blame the teachers - they taught the children
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town [??]
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Everyone's face you look on
Wears a frown
And the feeling you get
Puts you down
Cost of living is rising high while
Poverty flowing
The rain is falling
But no seeds are growing
So, smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Wanti wanti
Can't get it
Getti getti
Dem no want it
Havi havi no want it while
Wanti wanti can't get it, so...
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars, laugh on the wars
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars, laugh on the wars. Yeah.
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town... [repeated]
Don't blame the children
Blame the teachers, for they teach the children
Everyone's face you look on
Wears a frown
And the feeling they give you
Just puts you down
Cost of living is rising high while
Poverty flowing
The rain is falling
But no seeds are growing
So, smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars...you face back in town again
Smile out of style... [etc]
Watch yourself, mind what you say. Oh yeah!
Let me tell you, I want to tell you that
Smile out of style... [etc]
Stop on the walk
Don't blame the children
Blame the teachers - they taught the children
Don't blame the children
Blame the school-teachers - they taught the children
Blame the teachers - they taught the children
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town [??]
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Everyone's face you look on
Wears a frown
And the feeling you get
Puts you down
Cost of living is rising high while
Poverty flowing
The rain is falling
But no seeds are growing
So, smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Wanti wanti
Can't get it
Getti getti
Dem no want it
Havi havi no want it while
Wanti wanti can't get it, so...
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars, laugh on the wars
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars, laugh on the wars. Yeah.
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town... [repeated]
Don't blame the children
Blame the teachers, for they teach the children
Everyone's face you look on
Wears a frown
And the feeling they give you
Just puts you down
Cost of living is rising high while
Poverty flowing
The rain is falling
But no seeds are growing
So, smile out of style
Laugh on the wars you face back in town
Smile out of style
Laugh on the wars...you face back in town again
Smile out of style... [etc]
Watch yourself, mind what you say. Oh yeah!
Let me tell you, I want to tell you that
Smile out of style... [etc]
Stop on the walk
Don't blame the children
Blame the teachers - they taught the children
Don't blame the children
Blame the school-teachers - they taught the children
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screw face back in town..."